Experts, Authority and Law: conference at the University of Hull, 14-15 Sept. 2009

This interdisciplinary conference will examine the authority of experts, the authority of law, and the relations between them. http://www.law.hull.ac.uk/newsevents/events/09conference.html The general aim of the conference is to explore the bearing of contemporary developments in the area of social epistemology on the study of the institution of law. More specifically we are interested in exploring the interrelations between epistemic and practical authority with special reference to the auth..